Do you know the word? I didn't.
To my shame, I've practiced malaphores in public. I wasn't arrested.
No one has ever remarked on my I think my sole malaphore that I've used on my blog more than once, it being, "And what really gets up my goat".
It is a combination of two expressions, being "What really get up my nose is...", and "What really gets on my goat is...".
Have you ever malaphored? Do you mangle our beautiful language in a deliberate manner? I do like a bit of word play.
After today's heat and stress over will writing, I am going to bed now with a bit of a migrant. I'll feel better tomorrow.
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I am sure I am guilty. And dare I hope that your migrant leaves you quickly?
ReplyDeleteEC, I was being a little melodramatic. I had a slight headache which disappeared when I lay down, not a migraine.
DeleteI malaphore daily
ReplyDeleteGood for you, John. It is good for your mental and physical health.
DeleteAh yes, there is more than one way to swing a cat but I think I'm losing my bananas.
ReplyDeleteLove your work JayCee.
DeleteYou are going to bed with a migrant? Is it Kosov? What a caring chap!
ReplyDeleteYP, in spite of my offer of financial incentives, he has rejected me.
DeleteYep, sure have...
ReplyDeleteGood, Deb.
DeleteI dont have that sort of craft in English to do so
ReplyDeleteRoentare, they are probably sayings we have known for most of our lives. I understand.
DeleteWe have to watch out for kangawallafoxes on our road.
ReplyDeleteChez, not kangawallafoxeswombies?
DeleteGood grief. I assume such combinations are simply verbal cock ups
ReplyDeleteHels, it is an amusing thing to do, well amusing the one who does it at least.
DeleteMy old friend used to say that anything that irritated her got under her goat! Mixed with under her skin.
ReplyDeleteBoud, under rather on. Ah yes, under my skin.
DeleteI don't think I've Malaphored, but I know Ricky Ricardo, om I Love Lucy, has many many times!
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten that Bob, and he did but didn't overuse it, as I remember.
DeleteI've heard of a malapropism. This must be a relative.
ReplyDeletePossibly so Kirk. Is malaphore really a word? I read that it is on the internet.
DeleteIs it too late to DM you my details for the will making?
ReplyDeleteBut please, I only want to be executor if I'm getting the lot.
Anon, so sorry, but you did miss the date. Can I add you when I next revise? Anonomous, got it.
DeleteTwas I. Never too late to write another will.
Deletebtw Mrs Malaprop is a character in Sheridan's "The Rivals" who is given to such "malapropisms." I only know this because I saw it as a school play in about 1973.
Or you could do a codicil. Drafting in the post.
Thanks MC. I did not know the origin of malapropisms.
DeleteMy late mother used to say, 'what gets on my goat'.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, isn't that correct?
DeleteNope. It's "gets my goat." No on. But I don't really know about the goat it's getting.
DeleteWritten the wrong word, trust me.
DeleteMum used to say 'gets on my goat'.
I've heard someone saying "Boy that really grates my cheese!" as well as "gets my goat" but not as often as in the past.
ReplyDeleteWhat is that one River? Really grates on me, and cheezes me off?
DeleteYes, a mix of those.
DeleteLove it - I do this all the time 😅
ReplyDeleteI’ve got annoying tech issues Andrew so not able to comment often but still enjoying immensely reading your posts.
Alison in Wales x
Thanks Alison. I appreciate your comments. Do you know me from John Gray of Wales?
DeleteI first started looking at your blog when I saw it on the sidebar of
Delete‘Always Smiling’ blog
Alison x
A bit of a migrant? Arm? Leg ? Head?
ReplyDeleteWhatever tastes best, Anon.
DeleteI've never heard of malaphor. Apparently, it's a blend of malapropism and metaphor and was coined in 1976. Thanks for the laughs.
ReplyDeleteThat makes sense, JB.
DeleteSounds like a new hobby in the making.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, be grateful for my low bored threshold. I'll be over it in a day.
DeleteTwist the language all you want. Aren't we all a little twisted.
ReplyDeleteSome of us more than others TP.
DeleteI am forever explaining that I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer. Which always makes me feel like an ass when I realize that I've said it. Yogi Berra is the master of this. Google some of his quotes. The man turned that into an art form.
ReplyDeleteGood one Debby. Yogi Berra is very funny. Thanks for the laughs.
DeleteHope you complete your tasks and have fun this week Andrew.
ReplyDeleteAloha
Cloudia, someone said Christmas is next week. I don't believe them.
DeleteI do not know this word! Interesting! I'm trying to think whether I do this myself. If I do, perhaps I don't realize it. A lot of people say, when they feel a sense of dread or fear, "I had a pit in my stomach" -- when I believe the actual phrase is, "I felt it in the pit of my stomach." Maybe that's an example?
ReplyDeleteI think it is an example Steve. Essentially it malaphore seems to be a mangling of well known phrases.
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